Supreme Court Minister Cristiano Zanin announced himself I was prevented from voting In the trial that included former President Fernando Color, The court condemned it due to negative corruption and money laundering. The reason for the obstacle is the fact that Zanin is acted as a lawyer in procedures airplane Before taking a chair in the upper.
Zanin called on President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Labor Party) from 2013, and with what reached the Supreme Court, adopted the same position to declare himself prohibited in procedures related to the process, including in Operations that involve Lula.
In the Color case, Lula, which led to a distance from trial. The obstacle information was registered in the Supreme Court system on Friday (25). In the previous provisions related to colors, Zanin had already announced his prevention.
On Friday (25), the Supreme Court began, in the virtual plenary session, to try to support the decision in the case, Minister Alexander de Mora, who decided to arrest Color. The former president was arrested at dawn on the same day in Massio (AL).
Minister Gilmar Mendes has pushed the trial, which would transfer the analysis to the physical plenary session of the court. However, this Saturday (26), Mendes retracted the decision and withdrawing the requestAllowing the case to continue the ruling in the virtual plenary session – where there are no discussions between the ministers, only the registration of votes in the electronic system.
According to CNN, there was an expression between the ministers to remove the lead. The evaluation was that it would be bad to maintain Color’s arrest based only on the Monocrate decision, especially given that the next face session to the Supreme Court is scheduled only on May 7.
In the trial of Mendes, there was already a majority formed in favor of Morris’s decision. The trial was 6-0 and will be resumed on Monday (28) and the votes that were already submitted will be kept. Morais’s vote was followed by Ministers Flavio Dino, Luis Roberto Paroso, Cármen Lúcia, Dias Toffoli and Edson Fachin.
With a zanin obstacle, there are only the voices of ministers Gilmar Mendes, Nunes Marques, Luiz Fux and André Mendonça.
Or the case
On Thursday (24), Minister Alexander de Morais refused According to the appeal he was presented by Color defense. In May 2023, the former president was sentenced to eight years and ten months in prison, in a closed system, for his involvement in the corruption scheme in BR Distribidora, Vibra Energia.
Mora considered that the new resource was merely delaying the character, because he did not have new arguments, and determined the fulfillment of the immediate punishment.
The Supreme Court had already rejected a preliminary appeal by Color, as its defense claimed that the imposed punishment was higher than the average votes of ministers. In the new request, the defense argued that the punishment suggested by the ministers who voted in favor of a more moderate penalty, such as André Mendona, Nunes Marques, Das Topley and Rilmar Mendes.
In 2023, most of the ministers realized that it was proven that Color received about $ 20 million of bribes between 2010 and 2014 in favor of UTC Engnharia contracts with BR Distribidora, using his political influence as Sunator.
The corruption scheme also guarantees money laundering to hide the origin of illegal values.
In addition to the prison sentence, Color sentenced to prison:
- Pay 90 good days.
- The amount of $ 20 million Ringet paid the amount of compensation for moral damage, with two other convicts;
- To be prohibited from the positions or civil service to double the imprisonment time.